Category: Pokémon
Rating: M
Couples: X
Warnings: AU, Disturbing Imagery,
Chapter: 5
Copyright: Characters & places © By Game Freak, Plot & OC´s © by me
Author's Note: Multi Chapter Interlude between Sword's Fate and its' upcoming Sequel. Can be read alone.
"Italics" is indicative of Telepathy.
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While the Champions prepared to gather in Rustboro City in Hoenn, their Great Psychics woke in a place none of them had even dreamed off.
Olympia was the last to wake, her mind having taken the most damage from having been transferred there.
"We were worried that you wouldn't wake." A soft female's voice whispered in her mind. "You had so much damage."
"My mind feels like it." Currently, the aftermath of the psychic damage manifested as a migraine.
All four were on a small island, floating in nothingness. Other islands floated around them, water and plants refusing to obey the laws of physics and nature.
Much to the frustration of those capable of registering it, unlike most incidents of out-of-body experiences, this one was what psychics called a 'bare essentials'-incident. In other words, they were in a state of new-birth; having taken only their bodies.
"Let us take some of your pain." The only male of the small group offered, resting some fingers on her head. The other two females joined him and between the four of them the pain was reduced to a minor headache for each of them.
"That was not what I was planning for my afternoon." Kalos' Psychic muttered, pushing herself up to sitting. It was surprisingly easy considering this form was spectral. "Where are we?"
"I remember this from something Cynthia told me…" Lucian mused, hesitantly opening his mind a bit to share the memory with the other three. "The Distortion-world. Giratina's world."
"What the hell…" Sabrina crossed her arms, a wave of annoyed anger spreading from her for a moment, before she realised what she was doing and hemmed it in. "Okay, this whole having-to-actively-shield is going to get annoying fast, I can already tell."
"Back to the matter at hand." Caitlin was sitting the most curled up from them, using her long and voluminous hair to hide her body. "We're in a different dimension?"
"It certainly doesn't look like anything in ours." Olympia's moon-crested hair just fell down in waves here, framing her face. "I sense no life aside from us." Her pupils were pinpricks as she briefly glowed with psychic power.
"That might well be because we are weakened." The pale-purple haired male lifted his head a touch, tilting it back. "I feel nothing of our union."
All three could agree with him about that. "I wonder why we are here…" The pale-golden haired female finally stated the obvious question. "I went to take a short nap before our League opened up for challengers and woke up here instead."
"It was some Legendaries." Olympia stated darkly, carefully opening her mind to share the memory of what had happened to her with the others. Much like Lucian earlier, she had to struggle at keeping her mind from spilling everything out.
"I recognize that Psychic-type." Sabrina's eyes narrowed a bit. "Mewtwo; a Creation of Team Rocket, clone of Mew. It caused trouble a couple years back and then disappeared."
"And the other one is Darkrai, the Lord of Nightmares, a Sinnoh-native Legendary." Lucian added. "Why would they do this though?"
"Necessity." It was a different voice that reached them, another presence settling in their minds. "As we already told Olympia." Mewtwo rose from what seemed beneath the platform, glowing with his own psychic power. His tail flicked back and forth as he alighted in front of them. "That is all you need to know."
"Excuse me!?" The Kanto Gym Leader screeched. "I know for a fact that my body is no longer functioning with me being here, and my parents are due to get home from a weekend away! I have a right to know why they run the risk of finding me comatose."
"They already have." He dryly countered her, unimpressed by the waves of anger no longer held at bay by her body but spilling out freely over her surroundings. "All four of you have already been found. They are taking precautions to secure your bodies until your return to them."
They paled at that, fearing how the people they cared about would have reacted to finding their bodies completely unresponsive. Both Olympia and Sabrina had the added horror of them being found after a chase through her home that had destroyed parts of said home and by her parents respectively.
None of them even wanted to think about how their Pokémon would take this. They had all kept a regular and close mental connections to their teams and dared not consider how they'd react to having lost that certainty.
"You will have to stay here until things have been dealt with." Mewtwo shielded himself from the flood of emotions of the humans with ease. "I will be watching you to ensure you won't cause trouble."
It was as he was turning to leave that Caitlin remembered something. "Wait!" She shrunk back under his gaze when he looked at her. "Are you taking all Great Psychics?" After all, she knew for a fact that only Alola had no Great Psychic yet… which raised the question of what had happened to the ones not here; Hoenn's.
"Liza and Tate were spared since we did not wish to put children through this. They have been dealt with however, and pose no threat." The Legendary informed them coolly. "Nor do regular Psychics, for that matter." He added in an aside to Sabrina.